Bought by the Feral Billionaire
It was the Primordial Lunar Core, the true central processing engine of the artificial moon.
"Alpha King, Luna," Marcus’s voice crackled through the bridge comms link from the Vance Aegis in high orbit. "Sensors show a sudden stabilization in the moon's gravitational field. The hostiles are eliminated, but the central core is emitting an active data-handshake frequency. It’s seeking an authorized genetic key!"
Clara looked at the floating platinum sphere, feeling a strange, magnetic pull vibrating through the moonstone amulet against her chest. The ancestral Dragon Core within her bloodline hummed in direct resonance with the sphere's liquid light.